Day: August 24, 2015

It’s been nearly three weeks since I lasted posted. In that time, I blanketed media outlets with our press release*. We garnered some interest, most notably from a sites devoted to political satire.

What I hadn’t considered was that the election campaign is taking up everyone’s time, leaving most of our contacts spread too thin to devote the required time to a new submission – especially a comic strip.

So we’ll see how that goes.

My impression is that we may get more interest as we near publication date; it’ll spur a few people on in a way that only deadlines can. But will it translate into wider coverage? Only time will tell…

In the meantime, production fell a bit behind and Steve is ramping it up to get the strip out in time. That means cutting some corners, which I’m sure he’s not entirely satisfied with. But it’ll look good.

He’ll find a way. 🙂

Interviews should be coming down the pipes very soon (we’re doing one tomorrow night, actually). We’ll let you know if any of that sees the light of day, and also provide links when it does.

Stay tuned.

‘Beans’ is coming September 7th!!!

*If you haven’t received our press release and would like to, please get in touch with us: beans@comic.com. Or check your Spam filter. Our email to you is probably waiting for you already.

About ‘Beans’

'Beans' is a satirical comic strip that reflects the Canadian Federal political landscape. Characters are inspired by real people and the actions and dialogues are inspired by real events. It is intended to provoke reflection, dialogue and laughter.

By transposing the setting to a grade school (albeit a posh, private one) it compares the behaviour of our elected representatives with that of school children. The outrageousness of their behaviour begs the response: "They can't do that!"

Sure they can. And they will.

(This is merely a comic strip, after all - so we're going to have fun with it.)

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